I dreamt that I was explaining to two friends how reality is just the construction of a dream narrative - a manifestation of the collective dream. Confronted with this notion, one of my friends expressed disbelief and denial and both promptly started to fade out of existence. I felt shock and anxiety as this was happening.
There are several intriguing notions that can be interpreted from this dream...
| 1) | My friends' denial disqualified them from the collective agreement that manifests existence. |
| 2) | The fact that the reality that acted as the context for this investigation of the dream narrative notion was actually a dream is particularly ironic, since in that context the notion was true. |
| 3) | My friends' denial causing them to disappear from my reality could be interpreted as meaning that those who do not buy into the reality-manifested-from-a-dream notion and instead buy into the concrete reality notion don't belong in my reality but belong in their concrete reality. And I, therefore, don't qualify to consort with those who have committed to belief in the concrete reality, but must instead dwell alone in my manufactured dream reality. |
| 4) | My "letting the cat out of the bag" about reality being manifested from a dream met with a kind of penalty or punishment, as though calling the concreteness of reality into question is somehow "blowing the party". So, for letting the secret out, I didn't get to have the friends anymore. I ruined the illusion merely by confronting it and acknowledging that it was an illusion. |
| 5) | The sense of anxiety that I felt as my friends were fading out is interesting, as it suggests a high degree of attachment to something that is not directly the self and that is believed to be only part of a construction of the dream narrative. |
| 6) | Perhaps reality is NOT the construction of a dream narrative and the only dream narrative that exists is within the state of dreaming, and then perhaps they faded out because I was gaining consciousness at the time of dreaming this and thereby leaving this dream narrative. Surfacing from subconsciousness while I was having this dream might explain how lucid my recollection of it was. |